Conference Programme
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Monday 17th May. 2010 |
DAY 1 |
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Main Track: AFRICA FOSS AGENDA |
Technical Track/Parallel Event |
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08:00 – 13:30 |
REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS FOSSFA Strategic Committee meeting |
GHANA TOUR |
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14:00– 19:00 |
FOSSFA GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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Tuesday 18th May. 2010 |
DAY 2 |
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E-GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE |
Technical Track/Parallel event |
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09:00 – 10 :00 10:00 – 11:30 |
Open Session OPENING CEREMONY Chair: H.E. John Dramani Mahama, Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana |
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12:00– 13:15 |
KEYNOTE 1 Dr. Shahid Akhtar - International Consultant, Canada KEYNOTE 2 Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, Advisor, Ghana |
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14:30–15:00 |
Country practices and exchange KEY NOTE: Government of Brazil , Debora Reis , Brazil Government Software Expert |
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15:00 – 17:00 |
Interventions by Country Representatives Chair: Dr. Sola Afolabi, ECOWAS Discussant: Dr. Dele Ajisomo, CEO, Mandriva Africa |
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17: 00 - 18:00 |
KEYNOTE 3 Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director Linux International, USA |
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18:00-18:15 |
Presentation of Research Findings: FOSS and ICT expenditure in West Africa |
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19:00– 21:00 |
IDLELO GALA DINNER (IDLELO Awards) |
Book Launch - Book Launch - "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa!" |
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Wednesday 19th May. 2010 |
Day 3 |
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Main Track: REGULATIONS/STANDARDS/THE COMMONS |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary – Regulations, Standards and the Commons for African Development Nnenna Nwakanma, CEO, nnenna.org |
AUDITORIUM |
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10:15 – 12:45 |
Session 1: Regulations Chair: Joshua Peprah, National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana Panelists: Alex Gakuru, Communications Commission of Kenya, Ken Adu – Amanfoh, NCA, Ghana NITDA, - National Information Technology Development Agency, Nigeria ECOWAS – Economic Community of West Africa States SITA – State Information Technology Agency – South Africa ATCI – Agence de Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire |
CONFERENCE ROOM |
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Session 2: Standards, Patents and Copyrights Chair: Judy Okite, Capacity Building Consultant, East Africa Internet Governance Forum, Kenya Panelists: Shahid Akhtar – International Development Consultant, Canada Balthas Seibold, Senior Project Manager, InWent Capacity Building International, Germany. Philipp Schmidt - Founder, Peer to Peer University, Consultant on Open Education Resources South Africa Jon "maddog" Hall – Executive Director, Linux International, USA Kofi Kwarko – Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Ghana |
AUDITORIUM
FEDORA - Lunch Parallel |
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Main Track: CIVIL SOCIETY, SOCIAL EDUCATION AND MOBILISATION |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
Plenary: WE THE PEOPLE – Prof Kwame Karikari – Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa. Ghana |
AUDITORIUM |
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14:45 – 17:00 |
Session 1: Mass communication, education, mobilisation and advocacy Chair: Dr. Ojo Johnson, ACALAN – African Academy of Languages Panelists: Henry Addo – Developer Ushahidi project, Ghana Coley Zephania - Knowledge Broker, System Logic Consulting, South Africa Solomon Gizaw - Localization Research Center, University of Limerick, Ireland Cliff Schmidt - Executive Director, Literacy Bridge, USA Jojoo Imbeah, KASAHOROW Project, ANLoc, Ghana |
AUDITORIUM |
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Session 2: Non-profit administration Chair: Milton Aineruhanga – IT Program Manager, Women of Uganda Network, Uganda Panelists: Ben Konrath – GNOME, Canada Pierros Papadeas – FEDORA , Greece Alex Gakuru – Chair, ICT Consumers Association of Kenya |
CONFERENCE ROOM |
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Session 3: Media productivity and sustainability Chair: Katim Touray, International Development Consultant, The Gambia Panelists: Thomas Bastian – Deutsche Welle Television, Germany- Brenda Zulu – ICT Reporter, Zambia Rebecca Wanjiku – Development Jounalist, Kenya Rayborn Bulley - Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists, Ghana |
LINUX ROOM |
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Thursday May 20th 2010 |
DAY 4 |
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Main Track: BUSINESS / SOLUTIONS |
Technical Track/Parallel event |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
High-level business keynote – Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International, USA, Advisory Board member, ict@innovation project |
AUDITORIUM |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Successful case studies on African FOSS Business Roundtable by project champions of the FOSSFA / InWEnt Programme "ict@innovation - Creating Business and Learning Opportunities with Free and Open Source Software in Africa". Featuring among others: Coley Zephania - Knowledge Broker, System Logic Consulting, South Africa Keutlwile Leso - Business IT Professional Molemi NGS, South Africa Majid Igangula - Igan's Computer Training Center, Tanzania Arnold Pietersen , FOSS trainer, South Africa |
AUDITORIUM |
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11:15 – 12:45 |
Business models that work in FOSS Chair: Dorcas Muthoni - CEO, OPENWORLD Ltd, Kenya Panelists: Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International Ebow Halm, - Co-Founder, Accra Linux Group, Ghana Nyimbi Odero, Google, Nigeria Christian Roland - Club des Hommes et Femmes d'Affaire de Libre en Afrique - CHALA – Cote d'Ivoire |
AUDITORIUM |
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Main Track: CLOUD COMPUTING / APPLICATIONS / DEVELOPERS |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
STATE of the ONION ADDRESS – Nyimbi Odero, Google, Nigeria |
AUDITORIUM |
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Session 1: Cloud Computing : What's in it for Africa? Chair: Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) Panelists: Dr. Sola Afolabi – ECOWAS Secretariat Paul Scott - Chisimba Developer, University of Western Cape, South Africa Alhaji Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola, ICT Consultant, Nigeria Ernest Ofori, Ghana- India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) |
AUDITORIUM |
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Session 2: Applications for mobile technology. Chair: Zain Panelists: Joeri Poesen - Drupal Expert, Senegal Derrydean Dadzie - Chief DOer, DreamOval Limited, Ghana Nii Okai Quaye - Developer, Ghana Samer Azmy, Geek2Live, Egypt |
CONFERENCE ROOM |
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Session 3: Geographic Information Technology: where next? Chair: Dr Ado Ahmed, University Kaduna, Nigeria Panelists: Nico Elema - Director, GIS Global Image, Founder, Government Open Source Resource Center, South Africa Alaba Boluwade - McGill Univeristy, Quebec, Canada Keutlwile Leso - Business IT Professional, South Africa Majid Igangula - Igan's Computer Training Center, Tanzania |
LINUX ROOM
LINUX CHIX Africa - Lunch Parallel FUTURE of FOSS CERTIFICATION - Lunch Parallel |
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Friday 21st May. 2010 |
DAY 5 |
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Main Track: FOSS IN AFRICAN EDUCATION |
Technical Track/Parallel event |
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09:00 – 9:30 |
Plenary keynote: REPORT CARD – Davide Sorti, UNESCO, France Akema James Sarr, UNESCO, BREDA |
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09:30 – 11:30 |
Chair: Boubakar Barry, Association of African Universities Panelists: Anvar Ravat, African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources - AVOIR Philipp Schmidt - Founder, Peer to Peer University, Consultant on Open Education Resources South Africa Arnold Lorenzo - Tarlac College of Agriculture, The Philippines ICT@INNOVATION Project Milton Aineruhanga, FIXED in UGANDA Jon “maddog” Hall, Executive Director, Linux International |
AUDITORIUM |
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11:30-12:30 |
OFFICIAL CLOSING CEREMONY |
AUDITORIUM |
